Lil Mosquito Disease

Denzel Brown , better known by his stage name Lil Mosquito Disease, is an American rapper, songwriter and producer. He is the owner of Flex Entertainment and one of the 3 founders of the label. He is known for his masked appearance, love of lean and glocks and aggressive rapping delivery, usually covered in autotune.

Mosquito is one of the most well known faces of Flex Entertainment and has released four albums to date. Those being Infection, Swarm, Infestation and Infection 2.

2018–2019: Commercial debut
In June of 2018, Mosquito was asked to make a diss track on a man known only by the name "Anime Narrator" by his friend Broken Trombone Boi. After hearing his convincing argument, Brown decided to record a diss with lyrics ghostwritten by Broken Trombone Boi himself. The song would become known as "Captain Out of Tune" and was released on June 20, 2018. The song was criticized heavily by almost everyone who heard it thanks to the awful single cover which depicted a fish-eye version of a photo of the Anime Narrator provided by Broken Trombone Boi as well as the awful production, lyrics and general nature of the song. The song even made it onto TheTopTens worst songs of 2018 list. Mosquito followed this song up with his second single "Anime Narrator (Caw Caw)" also written by Broken Trombone Boi. It was released on October 15, 2018. Just like Captain Out of Tune before it, it received terrible reviews from all audiences. On November 19 2018, Mosquito released his third single, a remix of "R.I.P." by Playboi Carti.

Some time after these three singles, Brad Taste in Music stumbled across the song "Captain Out of Tune" while looking for songs to include in his worst of the year list. On December 10 2018, "Captain Out of Tune" was included on music critic Brad Taste in Music's Worst songs of 2018 list. Around this time he also got included in Hip Hop YouTube channel Hip Hop HQ's Worst Songs of 2018 list.

Around this time, Yung Schmoobin messaged Mosquito on Instagram to talk to him about making a song called "YouTube Money Reloaded". Mosquito ended up recording and sending a verse to him and it was included on the official song. The success of the song sparked talks between Mosquito's label "Asseating Records" and Lil Flexer's label "Old Man Dad Records" to merge their labels and artists and create a bigger and better label. After all parties agreed, it was named Flex Entertainment and it was created in late December 2018. On January 16 2019, Mosquito released two singles, "Slide on the Blocc" with Lil Jergens and his most popular song to date "Trombone Attacc."

2019–2020: Infection and Swarm
On February 16 2019, Mosquito released his debut studio album "Infection". It was met with mixed to good reviews from audiences and critics, many categorizing it as a great meme rap record. It did however garner some negative reception as well from the Horrible music & Songs Wiki

On February 23 2019, Mosquito released his first music video for his song "Trombone Attacc". The video ended up gaining 100k views and getting reactions from popular YouTubers like Tommy Craze and Brandon Rashad. The video was praised due to people finding humor in it. On March 5 2019, Mosquito released his remix of Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode" titled "Cripo Mode" with featured vocals from A.J., The Homie and Papa Thicc.

On March 22 2019, popular music critic Brad Taste in Music uploaded a video review of Lil Mosquito Disease's "Infection." While he found the first half of the album to be very slow, he praised the second half for making him smile and laugh. He gave the album a 7/10. After this video he began work with Mosquito on a collaboration album titled "Swarm". On July 12 2019, Brad Taste in Music under his stage name Big Baller B and Lil Mosquito Disease released their debut collaboration album titled "Swarm". It received mostly positive reviews from audiences citing the chemistry of the two and the humor for giving them a good laugh. It did have some negative reception from a few people though as well.

2020: Infestation
On February 21, Mosquito released his second single for his album Infestation, "33rd Trombone Attacc" with a feature from Big Baller B. The song was for a time Mosquito's most critically acclaimed single with a 91 on Album of the Year before being surpassed by Get Shot later in the same year.

On May 1, Mosquito's YouTube channel was terminated. The album was delayed. A new channel for his music was created a few days later, managed by beetlebat. On May 14, Mosquito announced that the album would be released in one or two weeks. This didn't happen however and it was delayed once again to August. Mosquito announced that the album was complete but was slowly being mastered by Kid Phang. On July 29, he announced that he would be releasing a new single to make up for the delay called "Get Shot." It was released on August 7 and peaked at No. 7 on the Flex Entertainment Hot 100.

Infestation was released on October 9 with features from various artists such as Lil Squeaky and Lil Toy Yoda. The album was met with tons of acclaim from the Flex community, some claiming it to be the best Flex project of the year. Some criticized it for having too many ideas that weren't executed properly or deviating too much from Mosquito's older works such as Infection. In hindsight some have said the project has shrunk on them while others think it's just as good as they remember. The album did great numbers on opening week too with it taking over the majority of the infamous Flex Charts.

On December 27, Mosquito released his music video for his song "Get Shot". The video is Mosquito's second music video since 2019's "Trombone Attacc" and was edited by fellow Flex artist Yung Lambo. A new music video from Mosquito had been teased since the "heading up north" announcement from late 2019. The video was filled with many deep insider Flex references as well as the first instance of Lil Mosquito Disease's eye being shown in an eye reveal that many say points to Lil Mosquito Disease being J Coyn Drive.

2021: "Just For Show: Reloaded" and Infection 2
On January 8, Mosquito released his single "Just for Show: Reloaded" featuring artists Lil Squeaky, A.J., Yung Tegga and xofilo. The song was a remake of a song by the same name on Flex Gang, Vol. 1 that many considered to be one of Mosquito's worst songs. The new version features a beat remake from Kid Floral and A.J. that deviates significantly from YoungAsko's original beat. Many considered this song to be Mosquito's best of all time with popular artist and critic Brad Taste in Music stating that Mosquito "sounded hungrier" on this version of the song. Others found it to be a blatant cash grab targeted at newer fans and music critics who were bound to eat the song up.

On March 1, Mosquito released his a second reloaded single titled "Warp Star Reloaded" featuring trap artist A.J. and rapper Emerald. The song was originally intended to be the intro for Flex Gang, Vol. 3 but was cut off the project after Flex on, Flex off was created. Warp Star Reloaded is a sequel to an A.J. song of the same name from 2019. The track released to warm reception with many comparing it with Just for Show as another melodic Mosquito banger.

On October 8, Mosquito released his fourth studio album "Infection 2". The album was a direct sequel to it's 2019 predecessor and features a wide variety of Flex Entertainment artists. The album was met with mixed reception as many saw it as a comeback to Mosquito's original sound but others thinking it did not go far enough into the Infection style.

2022-present: Possible fifth studio album
At the moment it is unknown what Mosquito is working on but he has stated that he will be dropping much more music in 2022.


 * Mosquito will feature on Chooga the Kid's single "Benjamin Franklin". The release date is unknown but it is confirmed to release sometime in 2022.

Critical Reception
All 3 of Mosquito's releases have received mostly positive reviews on Album reviewing site Album of the Year. On the site RateYourMusic, his reception is lower. Hip Hop YouTuber Hip Hop HQ listed him at No. 23 on the Worst Rappers of All Time. Three of his songs appeared on Hip Hop HQ's Top 100 Worst Rap Songs of 2019 list. "Mosquitos" landed at No. 72, "Lean in My Cup" at No. 55, and "Trombone Attacc" at No. 7. General I80 said "Lil Mosquito Disease is my favorite rapper. He is very versatile, which means he can do many styles of music. Whether it’s the poor production, but equally amazing vocals from 'Trombone Attacc', or the innovative and novel 'Meningitis, Lil Mosquito Disease has something for everyone."

His newest release Infestation is his most well received critically; however some prefer his older more abrasive sounding music.

Commercial Reception
Lil Mosquito Disease remains one of the most commercially successful Flex Entertainment artists. All 3 of his albums contain songs with numerous plays on various streaming platforms and his song "Trombone Attacc" is one of the most popular Flex songs to date.

Controversies
Lil Mosquito Disease was highly criticized for attempting to enforce a listening party for his single "Just For Show Reloaded" and override the listening party for Wild Wes's album Moonquake. Many Flex artists spoke out against Mosquito for attempting to have a listening party instead of Wild Wes.

Trivia

 * He is of Persian descent. He has called himself "the greatest Towelhead rapper in the game".
 * He also released music under another name "Skeeter Diseaser" before retiring from that name.